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It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.
Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.
Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.
My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot.
Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are.
I am not concerned about the age of the character or the length of my role in a film. What matters is its quality.
What is important is the character that I play. Making an impact is far more important than the length of the role.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
If you are good enough to play international cricket, you can take wickets - but you have to bowl the right length.
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length.
When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length.
The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.
If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
I didn't really know my wingspan was that short until it got measured. Either way, I was good with whatever my arm length is.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
Sachin Tendulkar is the hardest batsman I've ever had to bowl to because he judges the length a lot quicker than anyone else.
My sexuality, in terms of 'Strictly' or whatever else I do in my life, ought to be as irrelevant as the length of my big toe.
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them.
I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length.
My hair is always going to be purple; that's kind of my thing. It doesn't matter what length I make it, as long as it's purple.
I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.
Love is the most elusive thing I know. Always an arm's length away, teasing me and asking me to stretch a bit more and grab it.
Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.
I always give weightage to performance more than the length of my character. That has always been my criteria for signing a film.
I have dreamed of being a champion in WWE, and there's nothing I won't do, no length I won't go to, in order to keep it that way.
Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
I do my work to the best of my capacity. I don't pick a role looking at its length. I take up a film because I would like to see it.
There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form.
...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.
I was very anxious when I was writing 'Oscar And Lucinda.' I would take other books off the shelf to check my chapter length was OK.
It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.
Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
It's like Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy had a baby, and I was it. I've got Rory's length, and I'm hoping that I've got Jordan's touch.
I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.